Juliet McMains
Biographic Data
| ID | 5680126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juliet McMains |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juliet |
| FAMILY NAME | McMains |
| SIGNATURE | MCMAINS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Dance |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7290-5584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Margarita Bali’s Juego del Tiempo
Dressed in an elegant white pantsuit, 81-year-old Margarita Bali slowly traverses a bare stage. Mid-cross, she turns to contemplate the path she has traveled before continuing onward. After a few m
Queer Tango Space
The queer tango movement is an international alliance of tango practitioners who seek to denaturalize the link between gender and the division of labor in a tango partnership. The queer tango space provides participants, particularly female practioners, with relief from minority stress, access to LGBTQ sexual potentiality, and experiments in gender utopia
From Mambo to Salsa
Although often danced to the same music and called by the same name, mambo dancing at New York’s Palladium Ballroom in the 1950s differed significantly from commercialized New York salsa/mambo of the 1990s and 2000s. This chapter examines the technical differences that separate the dance styles of these two generations of mambo dancers, highlighting the older style’s closer reliance on Africanist aesthetics. The author argues that technical diffe…
Spinning Mambo into Salsa
From mambo to salsa : dancing across generational divides -- How Fania, hustle, and salsa romántica gave birth to studio salsa : commercialization of New York salsa music and dance -- Academies or kitchens : refashioning latino cultural identities -- On-1 vs. on-2 : rhythm debates -- Neck drops, aerial cartwheels, and body rolls : L.A. style salsa -- Spaghetti arms, pretzel turns, and ruedas : casino dancing in Cuba and Miami -- Redirecting dance…
Translating from Pitch to Plié
A major impediment to greater integration of music and dance scholarship is the lack of common terminology. This paper aims to give music and dance scholars some tools of analysis for exploring how each of these related arts interacts with the other. After presenting analogies between terminology in music theory and movement analysis, the authors demonstrate how these tools can be applied in choreomusical analysis. We discuss two broad categories…
Glamour Addiction
Brownface
The overwhelming stench of alcohol hovers in the hotel bathroom as my dance partner lathers a fourth layer of brown body paint onto my belly. “You have to learn how to apply your tan properly,” he admonishes sternly as I squirm under the sting of chemicals burning my skin. After rejecting twelve self-tanning products, I have finally found one that stains my fair skin dark enough for me to “pass” as a professional Latin dancesport competitor. Danc…
Brownface
The overwhelming stench of alcohol hovers in the hotel bathroom as my dance partner lathers a fourth layer of brown body paint onto my belly. “You have to learn how to apply your tan properly,” he admonishes sternly as I squirm under the sting of chemicals burning my skin. After rejecting twelve self-tanning products, I have finally found one that stains my fair skin dark enough for me to “pass” as a professional Latin dancesport competitor. Danc…
Brownface
The overwhelming stench of alcohol hovers in the hotel bathroom as my dance partner lathers a fourth layer of brown body paint onto my belly. “You have to learn how to apply your tan properly,” he admonishes sternly as I squirm under the sting of chemicals burning my skin. After rejecting twelve self-tanning products, I have finally found one that stains my fair skin dark enough for me to “pass” as a professional Latin dancesport competitor. Danc…
Glamour Addiction
Translating from Pitch to Plié
A major impediment to greater integration of music and dance scholarship is the lack of common terminology. This paper aims to give music and dance scholars some tools of analysis for exploring how each of these related arts interacts with the other. After presenting analogies between terminology in music theory and movement analysis, the authors demonstrate how these tools can be applied in choreomusical analysis. We discuss two broad categories…
From Mambo to Salsa
Although often danced to the same music and called by the same name, mambo dancing at New York’s Palladium Ballroom in the 1950s differed significantly from commercialized New York salsa/mambo of the 1990s and 2000s. This chapter examines the technical differences that separate the dance styles of these two generations of mambo dancers, highlighting the older style’s closer reliance on Africanist aesthetics. The author argues that technical diffe…
Spinning Mambo into Salsa
From mambo to salsa : dancing across generational divides -- How Fania, hustle, and salsa romántica gave birth to studio salsa : commercialization of New York salsa music and dance -- Academies or kitchens : refashioning latino cultural identities -- On-1 vs. on-2 : rhythm debates -- Neck drops, aerial cartwheels, and body rolls : L.A. style salsa -- Spaghetti arms, pretzel turns, and ruedas : casino dancing in Cuba and Miami -- Redirecting dance…
Queer Tango Space
The queer tango movement is an international alliance of tango practitioners who seek to denaturalize the link between gender and the division of labor in a tango partnership. The queer tango space provides participants, particularly female practioners, with relief from minority stress, access to LGBTQ sexual potentiality, and experiments in gender utopia
Margarita Bali’s Juego del Tiempo
Dressed in an elegant white pantsuit, 81-year-old Margarita Bali slowly traverses a bare stage. Mid-cross, she turns to contemplate the path she has traveled before continuing onward. After a few m
Art (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Dance (3 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Performance art (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · SALSA (2 works)